6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Collision (Nov 17 - Results & Review)

2. Interrupting Content To Promote More

AEW Rampage Collision
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Yuck.

AEW cut away from Buddy Matthews vs. Wheeler Yuta (which was positively killing it, by the way) to tell you that an episode of Rampage was coming up next. Did they really need to hog real estate on the screen and put the match in a tiny (muted) box on the right hand side to say that?

The announcers had been hyping Rampage all night anyway. Seriously, these picture-in-picture gimmicks might bring in money, but the way All Elite interrupts their own programming to hype more programming mid-match is irritating. Worse, they did it multiple times during Collision.

A women's main event tag was ignored for a few mins so Rampage could be shilled. AEW must learn when to pick their moments with this stuff. Imagine how grating it'd be if the next Spider-Man movie muted and minimised a fight scene to tell you about the...next Spider-Man movie.

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